Posted on 09/24/2019 6:37:31 AM PDT by lodi90
Fox News announced that they do not plan on booking Michael Knowles moving forward after he called 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg "mentally ill" on the network Monday night.
Knowles, who hosts The Michael Knowles Show for the Daily Wire, appeared on Fox News for a segment about climate change and Thunberg's activism. He was accompanied on the show by Chris Hahn, a former aide to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who took exception to Knowles' characterization of the teenager.
Fox News no longer plans to bring Knowles on the network anymore, a spokesperson for the cable news station confirmed to the Washington Examiner after it was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
"If it were about science it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and a mentally ill Swedish child, who is being exploited by her parents and by the international Left," Knowles stated, sparking a visceral reaction from Hahn, who proceeded to call him "despicable" and demand he apologize.
The network called Knowles' remarks "disgraceful" and issued an apology to both their viewers and Thunberg after the segment gained attention on social media.
Thunberg has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and Asperger's. She has called her condition "a superpower" that allows her to address climate change more effectively.
And you can watch the replays on youtube within an hr of the shows airing.
Employee of Soros
Fake Antifas. I seriously doubt they will be hooded and armed and manning the front lines at an Antifa assault on the decent.
Oh I believe they would - look what theyve done with their daughter!
They just want to make money, and they will.
Can’t say the truth!
The left is elevating a “special needs child” as a role model for other children. I am sorry but that is a sign of a culture in decline more than those who point out that this is ludicrous.
I would remind you that “special needs” is a euphemism used to categorize an entire spectrum of people. The left’s favored euphemisms become the future's dirty words. Every presidential candidate that the Democrats have so far is “special needs” by many measures. But who is being insulted by pointing this out? The mentally retarded population (which once was a clinical term) or the candidates? It is kind of hard to say, but I would prefer the company of a bunch of mentally challenged people over a deceitful pack of idiots.
Your #22, great info, txs!!
The leaders are never in the front lines.
I saw the segment last night.
The dude should have been smarter than to jump on a kid. You never win that argument.
His position should have been the Left is using children like her as human shields like Saddam and ISIS does....turn the tables back on them...not the kid.
Her laughing and giggling while this country circles the drain is not what we need.
In the real world 4 dead in Ohio would have been a flashpoint, except for the fact that the people shot were in the BACK of the protest, too close to the leaders for comfort.
The leaders recognized that it wasn't their useful idiots being targeted, it was THEM!!!
Yikes!
But there is something mentally wrong with the girl. Is FNC denying this?
“I also believe that going after a 16-year old special needs child isn’t our culture’s finest moment.”
They put her out there; let her adult handlers take responsibility for her.
I never said anything about Obama’s daughters until one was stupid enough to appear in public with a peace sign T-shirt; odd choice for the child of a commander-in-chief at a time of war, no? Remember, her father said they were “fighting for him”...
More FauxNews censoring. :(
They left out “delusions of grandeur”.
Why would anyone take the UN seriously when they trot out Hollywood-types and mentally ill children?
This fool was trafficked here for one reason: More and more young whites are realizing climate change is BS (because apparently non-whites don’t have to give up anything), so she was to lead them back to the correct way of thinking.
On the radio they pointed out she omitted Red China as a source of pollution; I guess they are the ones sponsoring her to weaken what is left of the West.
Their child is an Aspie.
Call me a softie, but I'm not going after their daughter.
In fact, I bet the expectation is that their daughter will act as a human shield against personal/parental criticism. Imagine their surprise when THEY, the parents, get torched. I think they are secretly snickering that their daughter is getting roasted...because we look stupid - "oh, they care more about a life in the womb than a 16-year old."
Fox News Apologizes After Panelist Calls Greta Thunberg A 'Mentally Ill Swedish Child'
Truth is disgraceful?
I freaking despise these scumbags.
She's a clearly not-right child being used by parents and environmentalists. The adults are no doubt HAPPY that she's drawing fire and they're not getting beat up - they now have the "upper hand" in bemoaning how the right-wing "goes after children."
Now, we have to spend time saying no, we don't go after children blah blah or saying well, yea, we DO go after SOME children regardless if they are on the spectrum or have cancer or whatever.
The smart tactic would have been to attack the adults and bemoan the morals of statists who use children as virtual human shields. I bet you the parents, now taking fire, would start unraveling and say stuff like "shouldn't you be attacking our daughter?"
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